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The Economic History Review, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 60-89, February 2024.Abstract This paper contributes to a growing literature on state capacity with reference to the early modern Asian empires. The historiography of these states, and especially the Mughal empire of South Asia, has moved away from an image of unrestrained despotism towards that of a constrained state, but has yet to explore fully what these constraints ...
Safya Morshed
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JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 7, Issue 1, January–December 2024.Land use maps based on 1839, 2011, and 2018. Abstract This study evaluates land use transformation in Kandahar's old city, also known as Ahmad Shahi city, the birthplace and first capital of modern Afghanistan. The city consists of four rectangular quarters and is surrounded by a high strong mud wall, entrance gates, and a moat.
Javed Ahmad Farooqi, Hiroko Ono
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A perspective illusion or a view from the clouds? Detail of an Early 16th-Century miniature painting produced in Tabriz (Iran) [PDF]
, 2019 A Persian painting (910H/1505) from a manuscript of Nizami’s Khamsa preserved in the Keir Collection portrays the mi'raj of Muḥammad among many angels in a blue sky; the Ka'ba is depicted in the lower foreground while the desert surrounds almost the ...
Fontana, MARIA VITTORIA
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On the nobility of urban notables [PDF]
, 2005 The claim to be a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (teseyyüd) was a widespread phenomenon that afflicted the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth century onwards.
Canbakal, Hulya, Canbakal, Hülya
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Subversive Skylines: Local History and the Rise of the Sayyids in Mongol Yazd [PDF]
, 2018 This article examines the emergence of the Ḥusaynī sayyids as key facilitators of the Mongols’ acculturation to Islamo-Persianate society and traces the expansion of their influence at imperial courts through the seventeenth century. Previous scholarship
Mancini-Lander, Derek
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A History of Slavery in Central Asia: Shī’ī Muslim Enslavement in 19th Century Bukhara [PDF]
, 2018 In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. Despite more than a century of interest on the part of western scholars and historians in the region of Central Asia, in many respects our knowledge of many topics in Central Asian history ...
Dunbar, Robert
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Three Turkish Letters in the Age of Safavids and Their Evaluation
Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2017 Safavid Empire (1501-1736) was founded by Mirza Ismail who took the support of the Turkmen tribes at the beginning of the 16th century. Ismail Bahadur Khan declared his kingdom at Tabriz former Aq Qoyunlu capital. After that Shah Ismail chosed the Twelve
Cihat AYDOĞMUŞOĞLU
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Echoes of Unity: The Shared Musical Memory of Safavid Tabriz and Ottoman Konya
Journal of the Music Research AssociationThroughout history, Tabriz and Konya have stood as two of the most significant centers of cultural and mystical life in the Islamic world. However, the musical interactions between Safavid-era Tabriz and Ottoman Konya, particularly within the Mevlevi ...
Tara Saiyah
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A Review on the Historical Approach of Skandar Beig e-Monshi e-Turcoman in Alam e-Araye Abbasi [PDF]
تاریخ اسلام, 2011 A set of historical books of Safavid time is considered as a bond between the idea of historiography in pre and post phases of Safavid era. Alam e- Araye Abbasi compiled by Skandar Beig Monshi e-Turcoman is considered as the most significant of these ...
Fatemeh Sarkheil
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Arthur Upham Pope and his research methods in Muhammadan art:Persian carpets [PDF]
, 2012 This paper looks at the emergence of Persian carpet scholarship in the early twentieth century, and the formative role played by Arthur Upham Pope, one of the American pioneers of Iranian art studies and collecting.
Kadoi, Yuka
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